European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes March Yvette guilty gets 15year sentence continued front Page 1 songs promptly at pm to Climax a trial which began March 6 and spread Over two the court not Only found Madsen guilty of but also guilty of planning to shoot her husband and of lying in wait for him in the living room of the couples Billet in near Rhine main air in spite of defense efforts to plead temporary the court said it found that Madsen was not insane at the time of the Madsen was Able to realize the forbidden nature of her the courts opinion she did not suffer from mental derange ment and mental from evidence produced at the the court said it considered Madsen to be a psychopathic personality with diminished responsibility for her it was in consideration of this diminished responsibility that the in pronouncing sentence under Section 211 of the German criminal handed mad sen the second stiffest penalty in its severest terminal sentence the court had the Power to sen tence the Brunet Mother of two children to life and the 15year sentence is the most severe terminal period of imprison ment in the courts Power to the West German Constitution has abolished the death penalty in the three Western zones of occupy because the sentence exceeded 10 the Madsen verdict automatically is appealed to the Hico court of appeals in and cower also indicated he will file notice of Appeal within 14 prosecutors Fred Johnson and Worth Mccauley indicated the prosecution was satisfied with the Gower commented Only that he appreciated the imminent fairness of the court Madsen received approximately the same sentence As a military government court in mar Burg handed Down in december 1948 to Wilma the first american woman to be tried Hesse on a murder Ybarbo term commuted Ybarbo was sentenced by the trial to 20 years imprison in the Federal prison for women in West also for shooting her Soldier Hus but the my court of appeals later ruled that the trial court had exceeded its which were limited to 19year maximum the appeals court in the Ybarbo Case also Cut the sentence to five and Gen Lucius then military com muted her sentence april and directed she be returned to the and set Ybarbo served a total of seven months in Madsen after verdict Yvette Madsen leaves the courtroom after hearing her sen tence for slaying her air Force she is accompanied by her attorney Elmo Gower and a was photo by Penn confinement in Germany from the time of the verdict in the Madsen Case was reached by a three judge panel composed of presiding judge Fred Cohn and associate judges her Man elegant and John Cohn read the verdict an pronounced the sentence on behalf of the entire Cohn also is a member of the nine judge Hico court of a but he told the stars and stripes tonight he will disqualify himself from any further connection with the Case when it comes before the higher court on court sources indicated the panel of judges worked virtually All last night in determining its findings and after the prosecution and defense had suddenly rested yesterday afternoon without presenting final seven Days of testimony in the background were seven full Days of prosecution and de sense with the prosecution spending three Days on presen tation of its Contention mad sen planned and executed her Hus bands killing in a fit anger Over his refusal to accompany heir Home from a Gay party at which she claimed to have been she left the party and drove Home evidence was introduced by the prosecution that Madsen found her husbands array Auto Matic pistol i a nigh table loaded went Down to the living room and wrote a note she was going to shoot in then fired a Bullet through mad Sens heart As he entered the living room on his return from the on the other the defense presented evidence on four Days to show Madsen had a loss of consciousness and was in an Epi Leptic fog induced by alcohol prior to the and that she committed the act while under a delusion of threat of attack by her spectators arrive Early for today court the courtroom began filling up an hour ahead of and by pm was jammed with Many of them wives of air Force was operations officer for the 1629th Mats so at Rhine main air the two Madsen and 15 were re turned to mad Sens parents in Brooklyn shortly after the shoot military police guards and a was Matron who have attended Madsen daily during the trial re doubled their precautions her conviction this the defendant will continue to be held in the barred and guarded apartment she and her matrons have been occupying on the grounds of the 97th go packed for verdict March 18 tense spectators in the crowded most of them Young wives of air Force fifteen a District court bad just intoned As tace time 22yearold Yvette Madsen must serve in a reformatory for killing 1st it Andrew Madsen with a the gasp was com pounded of amaze not even the earlier announce ment that the court had found Madsen guilty produced the same nervous tension in the courtroom As the waiting for the after pronouncing the slender j Mother guilty of premeditated Mur the panel of three Rej tired for five while spectators held on to their seats or shifted restlessly from one foot to speaking Only in most of the women present kept their eyes glued on who stared straight ahead in her chair Between a was Matron and Alfred a sudden hush fell As judges Fred Hermaa elegant and John Speight returned to take their places on the when Reading the sentence for the reached the words fifteen the Sharp intake of breath demonstrated the effect on each woman More than a score women spectators had attended the trial for the entire eight for her final appear Ance in the wore a Mustard coloured Light coat piped with Brown Over a bottle Green two piece Cor Duroy her dark hair fell to her shoulders she wore no makeup except she stood readily and without assistance for the formal pronounce ment of then walked be tween father and defense Torney Elmo Gower to the Toom in the Hall she opened her lips for the first saying will i be Able to see my babies almost As dumbfounded As his Noack declined any state ment after the verdict and sentence he he was too nervous and broken asserts psalter not taken by i March 13 the state discussing the return of the Maine psalter to said today the probably looted from its wartime repository in the Dresden was illegally imported through Trade channels into the and was Dis covered in new York City by government Ardelia state department arts and monuments said no Legal action will be taken against the american she said he got the Book on consignment from a european dealer and prob ably did not know what he was she refused to divulge the name of either miss Hall stated emphatically the valued was not by a the Dresden Library is in in a soviet zone Section which was never occupied by Shamrock troops drive North from Rhines East Bank continued from Page 1 a Headquarters communique the communique described morale and equipment of the army ground forces As the 61st to Carrier Wing applying knowledge gained on the Berlin air lift was airlifting the 901st act from the entire operation was scheduled to be completed within an eight hour the Force is being rushed to the French zone to the attack ing in the the 86th and 36th fighter bomber wings bombed and strafed aggressor1 airfields and ground Art of spokesman said approximately 50 aggressor aircraft were destroyed in raids on three aggressor aggressor fifth columns were reported to have been alerted for sabotage intelligence officers said they had intercepted orders to railway workers at Worms to disrupt service of the in the civil affairs phase of hypothetical proc Lama were issued to the German population of areas and to those living in controlled a party of French generals visited the Headquarters of maj Gen commander of Usa eur forces in the they included maj Gen of the Northern French zone of occupy and maj Gen chief of signal military and for the French 2 5 14 still on derelict vessel continued from Page 1 Miles Northeast of the 14 bad remained aboard to fight the the 163foot Craft was set afire by an explosion in its engine room last Friday while it was in route to the atomic proving grounds off eniwetok for what Hie Navy said was a buoy laying Mission to pre pare for trois Springs atomic one survivor related in a 20 minute radio interview last night How he and 25 shipmates spent seven Days adrift on life Ratts in the shark infested Waters after abandoning ship in a clutter of floating the rescued by the uss Comstock at was chief Boatswain mate Morgan Tidwell Tidwell said the Engin room explosion occurred about Midnight last thursday and was immediately followed by a fire two youth captured in Cable slashing of March 18 two of the three German youths j sought in the mysterious slashing of five Deutsche Post Telephone and Telegraph cables Here a week ago were arrested today in Frankfurt police the third suspect was still at under arrest and in route from Mannheim to Frankfurt Are Wolf gang spohnheimer and Willt who will be questioned in connection with the Sevi ering of the the third suspect is Wolfgang brother of eight to 10 feet of wire from the five cables were Tut out with Hacksaw in an underground dict it blacking out army and Hico communication worldwide press teletype wires and Kewai gathering services of the stars and stripes and an for More t than 12 police recovered pieces of the cables from a Frankfurt junk where the suspects had sold the Copper and Lead for 30 Frankfurt police asserted that theft was the motive for the slashing and discounted indications of l 4 1st div Battles aggressor continued from Page 1 of the most interesting features of Shamrock in that the Constanc 1 battalions attached to the 16th luf regt actually did All our according to col John j 16th the colonel explained he had Only two battalions in the exer Cise and had to hold one in regi mental Reserve to be committed on order from division head the 2d 6th army Cav con commanded by it col Donald operated so smoothly under our we  Tes we did not have our own Evans told the stars and i Evans said he had anticipated considerable difficulty in cd Munif cations and other but the night March and the chafe conduct of the battalion has proved them a Good addition to our a Veteran combat com stressed that co Stab Unito have vastly improved since changeover from police duties armoured he credited training and extensive Man Euver experience with their performance remarkable flexibility maj Ray inf declared he and capt Bale 3d 6th army Cav Liaison have had absolutely no diff Cul working the major he believed the cooperation nostrates the remarkable Flefil Ity of the out on the division air strip co Stab and aviation sections were waking i m sgt Norman my division air Section operation ser said the two officers and them of the 2d in were sharing mess facilities and being neigh3 Borly in he e planned it was unusual for Yaftali aircraft to be on the same Field Wil division the 5th a in air now and the co Stab men w expected to be located at separate Fields later Mccready Dis sea collision claims three March 18 fishermen lost their lives and others were reported missing in the sinking of the Schooner Gertrud Acosta after a collision today wits the Canadian freighter Island Nector just outside Halifax Hack Oil